I know it's not unique to AI companies, but it's worth saying: who you give your money and attention to really says something about your priorities. The AI companies have proven they don't care about individuals. Now they're active in warzones. Maybe think about not giving them money and attention

@dcbradshaw.com Nice to see @polygon.com giving you some love for the kickstarter www.polygon.com/little-but-f...

The fact that gambling ads are everywhere is so deeply disturbing. I've had a weekly poker game. I've played the lotto some. I'm not totally morally against gambling But the prevalence of this... it doesn't end well. The fact that the ads often even play up the fact that it's addictive is wild...

I feel like someone could make a legal case against Windows 12 being anti-consumer. Propping up their failed AI business model by creating a hostile, ai-focused OS seems like using their monopoly in a way that could be actionable…

"What happens when other devs move faster than you?" The obsession with speed of delivery is concerning. The obsession with speed is an obsession with exponential growth. If there's anything we should have learned in the past 20+ years is that exponential growth leads to rot. The rot we feel now.

I don't use them, but Google's AI summaries are garbage. Looking for something that results aren't coming for "Does Y work on external site or just in Y?" Summaries first says "it doesn't work on external...". I change the search: "Here's how to do it" What a joke of a technology...

I just found the YouTube app setting that disables videos auto playing in the feed and my stress level dropped noticeably. I literally breathed a sigh of relief

Pedantry, thy name is E2E Testings

I did a live debate last year at a conference about AI. It was pretty great. One big thing that stuck with me: The question was asked: if you use GenAI, are you stealing from all the people the LLM companies stole from? The difference in my response and my "opponents" response kinda surprised me

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

Morning folks! 21 days to go and we're at 237 prelaunch followers. I'd feel a lot less nervous if we hit 300 before launch. Can you do me a favour and give this a signal boost, ideally tagging a geeky parent/teacher you know who might be interested? Thanks!

How many minimized VS Code projects is TOO many minimized VS Code projects? Asking for a friend...

23 days until the #LittleButFierce Kickstarter launches. Help us hit 300 prelaunch followers by reposting and tagging a geeky parent or teacher you know. Thank you :) www.kickstarter.com/projects/dcb...

Oh my god! It's worse than I thought... the buttons on that interface that could be actual actions are instead things that fill out that text box for me... So instead of the action of "My open pull requests" taking me to a list of open PRs, it populates the agent chat box!!! I'm beyond incensed

Excuse me, GitHub, but why exactly do I need a giant prompt on my home screen that is JUST "Ask anything"? Are you so desperate that I interact with your bots? This is not what I'm coming to GitHub for. At all.

Watched Brandon Sanderson talk about AI Art and really enjoyed the take that the output of art isn't the Art, it's the receipt of the internal and external processes of making the art. In a world so hyper-focused on the "output" and the product, I like thinking more about the internal...

Where my fan fiction authors at?

One of the few times when a post breaks containment a little and it's a positive thing. What's to follow is a couple comments on this video that I quite enjoyed

It's ok to work on your hobbies. Hobbies are good for us. They're an "adult" version of Play (and Play is fantastic for our minds). This is your permission to not have to create value every second of your life. Do things for you. Work on your hobbies. www.youtube.com/shorts/6h7gZ...

As our CEO beautifully puts it: "We spend our engineering time on stability and features users actually requested. Not on AI assistants that hallucinate answers, while training on your private browsing history. Novel idea, apparently. 🎯

What was the last thing you did for yourself? I’ll go first: Sunday, I baked 15 bagels. We had store bought bagels in the pantry, but I really wanted to make bagels. They turned out fantastic. And while working on them, I was in a GREAT headspace. Hobbies are good for your mental health

“If I don’t get ahead of using AI, I worry about the stakeholder meeting where they deem me useless” This is a really depressing (paraphrased) comment I just read. BRB, going to stare into the void for a bit…

I have any contacts or friends at @render.com? Trying to get up and running with a blueprint and getting a weird error Posted in their forums here for details: community.render.com/t/blueprint-...

If you had $100 to specifically put toward a hobby (new or existing) what would you spend it on? A project? Materials? New equipment? Something else?

Does anyone know of an organization that gives money to help people get started or level up hobbies and/or complete a specific hobby project?

If I made a podcast/video series that was basically “Show me your hobbies” would you be on it to show me your cool shit?

If one of the $100B investments in AI was directed toward hiring tutors (assuming $60k/yr), that would be 2M tutors working 40 hours a week helping students Assuming bureaucratic BS, let's assume 20hrs/wk for students at 1 hr/student. 40M kids get specialized 1 hour tutoring per week

Exactly! Also, Once upon a time, we didn’t need an image for every blog post. Not every blog post needs an image. It’s the engagement farms that told us we had to have that.

Love debugging things that only happen in the CI/CD build process and not locally... It's my favorite

it helping with some specific kinds of work is not the same thing as benefitting workers. american devs renting the stolen work of everyone else for $200/mo from a well capitalised middleman is not a pro-worker outcome is it

If you could get paid for just engaging in one hobby, which of your hobbies would you choose?

Who has a good resource for semi-natural-language regex building? I'm so bad at regex...

Ugh. iOS finally updated. This is terrible readability and ux…

Most Auth providers have some form of account takeover protection. Make sure you think through your architecture to keep your high-security users protected even in low-friction, low-security environments, as well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAkZ...

"But the genie is out of the bottle!" Turns out if you shame the people using the genie, they may stop using the genie.

Am I wrong (I may be) in being a little weirded out by all the companies sprinting to sponsor tailwind now that they laid off 75% of their company? Like, I get it, the tool is in dire straights, and I want the remaining employees to get paid, but... it feels "off" for sure...

I don't know that I need to be in the "discourse" but the fact that people replied to Tailwind's layoffs with "have you considered feeding MORE of your company to the theft machine?" is really something...

A moth surprised me, and I kicked the bathtub breaking my big toe. Jumping to headbutt a soccer ball, I landed funny and fractured my spine. Throwing a ball while sitting on the floor, driving my thumb directly into the ground, breaking it… My childhood was odd broken bones…

If your goal was to kill the independent web, I couldn't think of a better technology than LLMs...

Starting to roll out some clips from my "AI is bad for you" presentation from October. Today is sharing the thesis of the talk and my own bias against GenAI www.youtube.com/shorts/4ePRl...

I love catching tiny audio or visual issues with a video after export... multiple times in a row

Ignoring tech for a week did NOT make me mellow. Seeing AI boosters upon returning to my various feeds is still rage inducing...

Anyone have an external dvd drive they like? Reading and writing

Is there a way in VS Code to disable the agent chat window that opens on EVERY project, EVERY time I open them? I didn't see anything on a quick search of the settings...

How does the "it's tool to empower artists" AI crowd reconcile use of a tool built on mass theft of creative output?

Love the differences in response here and on LinkedIn 🤣 The "It's just a tool" crowd jumped in on LinkedIn. Also quite a few folks with "counter examples" and "don't gatekeep" There were also a few folks that agreed, but the "just a tool" crowd really bothers me overall...

If you’re an artist that has started to employ GenAI, I think you have to stop calling yourself an artist…

Original photograph was a depiction of construction workers—blue collar people who built New York City but were rarely acknowledged & were certainly underpaid—while this one is a depiction of well-known billionaires whose AI empires are built on stealing the intellectual property of everyone else.

I get really frustrated with the state of web-based software... We really set some bad precedents a decade or so ago... Things load and pop in and we do requests via little widgets that take forever and don't give enough feedback and things fail silently... all because we didn't want page loads...

The spellbooks of the mightiest wizards are never written on paper